European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday. September 19. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 palme s widow has no doubt of killer s guilt Stockholm. Sweden a the widow of prime minister Olof palme questioned directly Mon Day by the Man convicted of killing her husband said there is no Chance he is innocent. Unfortunately there is no doubt Lisbeth palme said at an appeals identified Chrisler pct Cresson As the Only person in sight on the downtown Street Corner where palme was shot to death on the night of feb. 28, 1986. Pct Cresson was convicted of the killing in july and the appellate hearing which began sept. 11. Has largely been a rehash of testimony at the lower court trial. After mrs. Palme had been questioned by defens attorneys for almost two hours pct Cresson was led into the courtroom under heavy guard and allowed to ques Tion her directly for the first Lime. Mrs. Palme appear ing shaken closed her eyes As he was led in. Speaking loudly Pettersson said if 1 am convicted of this i can count on 10 years of imprisonment that is 90,000 hours before i have my first furlough. Therefore i ask you to look judge Birgitta Bloomin the eyes for 10 seconds and say that it was i that killed your Svca court of appeals fell silent until Blom said mrs. Palme nodded her . Crash injures West germans a policeman checks the wreckage of a after an Accident sunday on the new York state thruway Nea Buffalo. Twenty three of the passengers All from Vonburg West Germany were treated for minor injuries at area hospitals. The was in route from Niagara fulls to Rochester for a sister City Celebration. Hatfield and Mccoy feud May pay off for town . I to .1 i. .u., to nth tile iftifl/n/1 if or Yiv Lin nip in Elk Matewan . A the hat Fields and my coys Don t fight anymore and Many of them would just As soon forget their ancestors feud. some inthe Community Are trying to find a Way to commemorate the bloodshed. There arc a lot of grandsons of Devil ans Hal Field and his Brothers around Here said Paul Cal Lister director of the new Macwan development Cen Ter. Most of them arc in their 60s, and they re a i talc Bil bitter about the Rcpt Lions they had to grow Wilh and live the Macwan can scr local cd in i Conly Ihrck Story building in the Lown of 800, features a photo display on the massacre and other incidents inthe town s history. It draws a few people a week. Mai Lisier is hoping the National Park service will help Matewan Imo a tourist attraction. He envisions a museum for instance within 10 years. It s been 100 years this month since a jury sentenced eight Hatfield clan members to life in prison and or dered a ninth hanged for the slaying of five Mccoy ending the bloodshed in which 10 to 20 people died. most participants died of old age. The hat Fields patriarch William Anderson Devil ans Hatfield. Got religion and gained Community respect before he died in 1921 at the age of 83, his grave at Sarah Annin Logan county is marked by a towering italian mar ble sculpture of him. The Leader of the Mccoy ran Dolph old ran a Mccoy embittered by the deaths of five of his 16 children moved to town in Pikeville ky., dying in 1910 at age 85. Buried with them Are the real reasons behind the feud in the heart of Appalachia. What is known is that the hat Fields living mainly i what is now Mingo county ., and the Mccoy in Pike county. Ky., fought on and off for a doze years in the Region s wooded tangle of valleys and ridges. Some say the feud started in 1878 Over a pig that belonged to the Mccoy and ended in a Hatfield pen. Others say the dispute stemmed from the civil War. In which this version goes the hat Fields fought for the confederacy and the Mccoy the Union. Others say both families fought for the South. Romantics say that the feud stemmed from an illicit affair Between Johnse half iced and Roseanna Mccoy and that she eventually bore him a child of wed lock. In a 1988 Book feud hat Fields Mccoy and so Cial change in Appalachia 1860-1900," author Allina Waller contends that the feud was the result of a Clas Between the traditional culture based on subsistence farming represented by the Mccoy and the Emer gence of capitalism fuelled by Coal mining Timber Ting and Railroad interests in the hat Fields Region. Whatever the cause open warfare Between the families began in 1882 when Devil Anse s brother Ellison Hatfield was stabbed two dozen times and shot during an election Day Brawl in Pike county. The hat Fields seized the three Mccoy responsible and when Elli son died they were tied to papaw Trees and executed. The feud escalated until new year s Day 1888. When the Hal Fields Altac cd inc Mccoy Home in Pike county burning it to the ground and killing two fold ran i s children. The governors of Kentucky and West Virginia be came involved in a jurisdictional dispute Over the fighting that wound before thes. Supreme court. Now. Mcallister s organization is trying to find a Way to comic moral inc feud and the 1920 Matewan massacre a downtown Ballac by tween United mine workers sympathizers and Coal company guards in which at least nine people died. The incident was depicted in the 1987 movie Robert Mccoy a former Macwan mayor is among those who had to grow Wilh the Sigma attached to the feud even though his Branch of the family had economic tics to Devil ans and never look part in the bloodshed. Nol every Mccoy or every Hatfield participated in the shootouts Mccoy said. We re directly related to the so called flu discs we we l participant in Mccoy also is on the Macwan development can scr s Board of directors whose plans Call for historic restoration downtown. As a member of the family i probably gel a Little tired of it. Through the years Ever since i was in High school in has been brought to my attention he said. As a Community i think it s one of great Hopes for economic survival Dotson cleared of rape lands Back in jail after marital clash Chicago a Gary Dolson who was cleared last month of rape and kidnapping charges that were recanted by his accuser was arrested on a trespassing charge sunday in his fourth in with the Law since he gained not Ricly. Dotson was arrested after his wife Camilla from whom he is legally separated signed a complaint Agassi him. Cook county sheriffs it. Arthur Jackson had been attempting some sort of reconciliation and when they agreed to reconcile she gave hcs Aid. Things fell through. She asked for the key Back. Herc fused Jackson said. She left Lown and when she came Back he was Ai inc apartment and refused to called officers to her Apan Mcnol in in Scorpo rated Maine township where her husband was arc was being held Al inc Cook county sheriff department on $100 bail and was scheduled to appear in court oct. 6.criminal trespassing is a Misdemeanour charge punishable by no More than a year in prison Jackson , 32. Was cleared . 14 of charges brought after Cath Lccy Crowell Webb accused him of rape an kidnapping in 1977. Dotson was convicted in 1979, Webb came Forward six years later to say he had not committed the was granted clemency and paroled by gov. James r. Thompson in 1985, it was t until a gust that new genetic evidence proving Dotson have committed the rape forced a judge to Grant a new trial. The pros culion then dropped the charges. Dotson has been living in an alcohol and drug Treal his parole he has been arrested for traffic violations and another Domestic disturbance. He was jailed several times for parole violations including fighting in a bar and failing to report to his parole officer. New from makes revenge easy As pie Orinda Calif. A people who be been wronged by a Boss jilted by a Lover or otherwise insulted Are finding the ultimate revenge has just plopped in their new company will Send a genuine cowrie nestled in an 8-Inch pie tin wrapped in plastic and boxed like baked goods for $16.95, or $9.95 on special. Fake flies Are 75 cents extra. They have no idea what they re getting the think it s an Apple pie in red cellophane said Jen Nifer Sanders president of and her two partners of Ayle Mas sey a san Francisco advertiser and Santa Mon Ica businessman Donald Grant actually scour the Fields for the real far they be filled about 100 orders. Many arc for birthday parties nearly half of the pies carry More pointed message. One Homeowner ordered a Pic for a Carpenter whose work he did t like another sent a Bovine confection to his Bank
